If you could create a soundtrack to office life, what would it sound like? Corporate Inefficiency Machine is what the past 15 years of corporate life sound like for me. It is 7 tracks of synthwave, electronic dance music, and downtempo with a little futurejazz.
Building The Machine
I have to balance out my day job as content marketing person with art. This is why I write music (mostly at night) when the work day is done. Most are instrumentals that sound like B-side tracks from 80s new romantic groups like Talk Talk or Japan or Tears from Fears.
Check it out on Bandcamp or stream it below.
Track By Track
01 Mass Exodus
A synthesizer anthem dedicated to all those who have resigned and moved on to better jobs. Emotive synth pads on a downtempo groove that builds into a symphonic fury.
02 The Glorious Purpose of the Totally Bad
A downtempo groove built off of a pluck synth doing an arpeggio. Chunky, syncopated drums bring it to a sad, distant ending.
03 Soldiers of the Corporate Army
A bouncy acid techno bass on top of a driving dance rhythm. The startup soldiers march maniacally to a frenzied drum.
04 The Contract is in Cursive
Downtempo synthwave with digital brass melodies that weave in and out, like cursive script on a contract that takes your soul away.
05 Behavior Hommem
This one takes world music and turns it on its ear, using retro 80s sounds and mutating into a full-on drum-heavy groove. The song title is taken directly from the subject line of a spam email I got in the early 2000s.
06 Key Performance Vindicator
Sounding like a house music version of New Order’s “Subculture,” this one begins floating into the stratosphere like a true rocketship, which is every startup’s favorite euphemism for the company launching successfully.
07 Gravitational Inertia
The truth is, every rocket ship is held tightly by gravity and inertia — whether that’s by its own inefficiencies or by its people. This is an ode to all those who break free from gravity to conquer the stars.
Credits
As with my previous albums, this one was made entirely using Reason Studios’ Reason Version 11.
Album cover created with the help of Stable Diffusion AI.